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Official letter. Small fragment. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic (partially vocalized). Wide space between the lines. Refers to a man who was appointed as judge and …
List of foods and amounts: taro, egg, onion, chard and cilantro. Shopping list? Omelette recipe? ASE/MR
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Damaged dowry list.
Letter fragment in Arabic script, probably commercial. It is difficult to decipher the content. The term "al-mamlūk" (referring to the sender) appears multiple times. The …
Legal record (#45) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 11v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 44-46) Folio 11v
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Letter fragment. In Arabic script, with a single word in Hebrew script (ניסן). Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. The preserved text is written at …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions wheat, blessings for somebody, a request to purchase something, and having sent something to Rabbenu Elʿaz[ar].
Recto: Prognostications in Arabic script. The first section is headed with an Arabic alif and a Hebrew alef in a box "اא" and the second …
Legal documentin the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), or maybe Hillel b. ʿEli (1066-1108). Involves Yiṣḥāq or [...] b. Yiṣḥaq and …
Letter addressed to a dignitary with a long introduction in Hebrew and the body in Judaeo-Arabic (what remains of this is in the margin). Hand …
Minute fragment from the bottom of a (state?) document in Arabic script. The text preserved is just the ḥamdala. Reused for Hebrew liturgical text on …
Legal document with release formulae. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions "the two gates" (? al-bābatayn).
Will (waṣiyya), in Arabic. For a Sicilian named ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar al-Ṣiqillī/al-Siqillī al-Anṣārī. Lines 6–15 consist of his profession of faith in the tenets of …
Verso: Opening of a letter from Sherira Gaon sent to Qayrawān. Dating: ca. 970 CE. This is a continuation from the first part of the …
List of names (Abū Isḥāq b. Ṭībān; Abū Zikrī b. Menashshe; Saʿd al-Mulk; Abū l-Bishr al-Bazzāz; Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Tinnīsī; Abū Manṣūr al-Zayyāt; Abū Naṣr b. …
Qaraite deed of betrothal for Khalaf b. Maḥfūẓ (groom-to-be) and Amat al-Qādir bt. Efrayim b. Manṣūr b. Furāt (bride-to-be). Location: Probably Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 17 …
בשם אל [עולם] … |
ואנחנו עמ[ך] … |
וארשתיך לי ב|
נתחיל בשעת רצ|
עדן אלהים ובחיי ה|
ככם אלף פעמים ויברך |
זה ספר אר…
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Petition from a man described as having many dependents (the first two lines read: wa-huwa ṣuʿlūk kathīr al-ʿāʾila wa-yasal al-inʿām ʿalayhi wa-al-iḥsān ʾilayhi bi-khurūj ilā …
List of names and corresponding monetary values in silver kuruş. Among those listed are: Yakov Qatawi, Yosef Bilobos, Yaʿaqov Akubas, David Dayyan, Nissim Ashkenazi, Moshe …
Probably a power of attorney involving Elʿazar b. [...], valid in "all the countries and cities" (al-buldān wa-l-amṣār wa-l-[...]). (Information in part from CUDL)
Arabic script (VMR)
Letter from Yosef b. Yaakov, probably from Tripoli (Libya) to Isma’il b. Barhun al-Tāhartī, Fustat. Around 1030. A complaint about a person Ibn Masis. Mentions …
[אטאל אללה יסידי] בקאך ואעזך ואכרמך ואידך ואסעדך ואתם נעמתה עליך כתאבי אליך ען סלאמה ונעמה
[ללה] אלשכר דלך בטול בקא אלקאיד סידנא וצל כתאבך …
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Popular literature in rhymed Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably no earlier than 13th century. 8 folios. NB: Goitein's index card refers to this fragment as "daily household …
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Unknown document in calligraphic Arabic script. Appears to be a small fragment torn from a larger document. There are also Hebrew pen trials.
Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions rent and houses several times, and also several names, including possibly دمينق and al-muʿallam Dāʾūd.
State document, two fragmentary lines in Arabic script. Not much is preserved but what remains reads as prayers and invocations.
Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq to Abū ʿImrān [...] and perhaps ultimately to the writer's son (li-waladī). In Judaeo-Arabic (for the letter) and Arabic script …
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Probably a state document in Arabic script, reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ. The Arabic document is very difficult to read.
Trousseau list with many typical items; [...] b. Yehuda is mentioned. On verso there is more writing, probably also legal, in a different hand. (Information …
Informal note in Arabic script. Begins, "The slave reports (=I report) that the aforementioned shipment/bale (ḥaml) is still with me, and if you order me …
Accounts in Ladino with western Arabic numerals that detail a wide variety of labeled figures and calculations. Based on the paleography the dating may be …
Business letter from Mūsā b. Abū l-Ḥayy in Alexandria to Abū l-Afraḥ Avraham (ʿArūs) b. Yosef in Fustat. The letter contains an accounting for a …
על שמך
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ו[ ]
לד בקין מן תמוז כתמה אללה עליה באחסן כאתמה ען ח[אל סלאמה] ונעמה
ושוק אליה קרב אלל…
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dating: probably 11th century Addressed to a group of people (אלפצלא אלאגלא . . . אעצם אללה כראמתכם . . …
Official or communal note. In Hebrew. Damaged and faded. "We further inform our master that... a man from the congregation of... the man... Yiṣḥaq b. …
Letter or other document. Mentions that which Yeshuʿa b. Dunash said concerning 'the two noble brothers' Shelomo b. [...] and Ṣedaqa b. Moshe the elder. …
Verso: Formula for a validation by the court in the hand of Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066-1108), including an interesting addition. (Information from Goitein's index …
Lists of materia medica, with simples such as indigo, Mimosa nilotica, pomegranate flower, and turpeth. In columns, with quantities in Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic text. Possibly a letter, but everything preserved consists of ethical exhortations, so might also be from a literary text.
Maimonides autograph of his commentary on the Mishna (Kelim 8:9). (Information in part from FGP.)
List of botanicals and chemicals, such as: cloves (קרונפול), arsenic (זרניך), licorice root (ערק סוס), beleric myrobalan (בלילאג), oxtongue/borage (לשן תור), among many others. The …
Legal record (#59). Deathbed will. Dated: Tuesday, 26 Tammuz 1467 Seleucid. Testator: Abū l-Wafā Tamīm al-Kātib Ibn al-ʿAnbariyya. He wills to his younger sister, the …
Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Someone releases multiple people from claims. No details.
Recto: Marriage document (ketubba) in Palestinian style. Dated: [47]40 AM = 979/80 CE. Groom: Efrayim b. [...]. Bride: Khuzayr bt. Ḥusayn. (Information from Friedman, Jewish …
Pre nuptial agreement between Nissim Halevi b. Eliyyahu b. Nissim and Rachel d. Mordechai b. Shalom, dated Sunday 18th Adar, 5579 Era of creation (1819).
Letter addressed to an important Jew. There are three lines of rhymed Hebrew text at the top, followed by a large space and 5–6 lines …
Legal document, small fragment. In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Mentions 'all kinds of merchandise' (in the margin).
Letter from Barakāt b. Sason to ʿImrān b. Benaya, in al-Maḥalla (אלמחללא). In Judaeo-Arabic, with some unusual orthography (including ש for ס and ת for …